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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Team Not Art Thieves
Via Kotaku an Inquirer article reports that, despite earlier claims to the contrary, it looks like the folks behind the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. title are not guilty of art theft. It seems both Half-Life 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. use textures from a pack produced by Marlin Studios. The similarities are there because both teams used pre-canned materials for their titles, not because of any tom-foolery on the part of GSC GameWorld.
Good thing we all jumped to conclusions.
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I bought all 38 copies of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. from the local Best Buy thinking it'd be a good investement.
Do you have any idea the hundreds of thousands of hours that would be wasted if every game made all of their own unique textures. How different do you want that crate to look from game to game? What about that door? Or how about on a smaller scale, what about the trash texture used to cover the top of a garbage dumpster, do you want to recreate that for every game just to give it another point of difference that nobody will notice?
just as unoriginal aesthetically as the other major players.
Nah, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s dark brown halls look much nicer than DOOM 3's dark brown halls.
Trolling is a art,
I'm a big fan of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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The game is very original, and I see a lot of promise in this game in the way of mods, expansions, and sequels. This game is so good it made me feel like I was playing a first-person-shooter version of Fallout. In fact, I recently reinstalled Fallout, and am beating it again. If S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is good enough to remind me of such a golden age game, they must have touched on the right nerves.
Hopefully any previously mentioned projects will take less time to develop than the game itself did!
I sort of doubted the original allegations were true, and figured that some kind of licensed or public domain material must have been involved in this. Glad to hear that is in fact true.
This developer shows promise, and it would be unfortunate if its reputation were inappropriately tarnished.
Exactly. Time spent creating Unique_Wall_Texture_37 takes time from creating Unique_Mob_Texture.
I mean, I know every time I go through Half-Life 2, I spent hours looking at wall textures wondering how each would look as wallpaper for my room. I could care less about the striders, the bugs, Dog or Alyx.
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So... they're not thieves, just as unoriginal aesthetically as the other major players.
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Yes, because games sharing the textures for some of their lamps are then all junk.
Give me aesthetically innovative lamp textures, goddammit!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
From the last sentence of the article: "the IMP_Light texture that it was thought could have been pilfered from Doom 3 was, in fact, just a standard Impact Light texture, rather than referring to the Doom 3 monster."
So, game developers are not constantly re-inventing the wheel... this is great. How many times in an FPS have you burst into an office, seen a desk, a chair, etc, then wondered how long it took developers to model it, texture it etc? Probably not many. But I have! Really, a few good chair models is all we need. This will hopefully free up development time for more important things like design, AI, plot and innovation.
Even better, these kinds of resources need to be made available to small time and independant developers. Writing a 3D game would be a lot easier if a huge number of the objects were already done.
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But someone ought to take a good look at Marlin Studios. Apparently some of their textures were lifted straight from HL2!